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Migrants have been surging across the U.S. / Mexico border [Photo courtesy CBP]

On Monday, a federal court judge announced his intent to grant a Temporary Restraining Order preventing the Biden administration from ending Title 42.

Arizona and 20 other states asked Judge Robert Summerhays of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana to stop the CDC’s revocation of Title 42, which was supposed to go into effect on May 23rd.

Arizona Governor Doug Ducey called the judge’s decision the “right one.”

“Title 42 is one of the last measures in place that helps keep our communities safe and allows our border agents to do their jobs. We need action from the Biden administration to secure our border now,” said Ducey in a tweet.

“We applaud the Court for approving our request for a Temporary Restraining Order to keep Title 42 in place,” said Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich. “The Biden administration cannot continue in flagrant disregard for existing laws and required administrative procedures.”

Attorneys general from Louisiana, Missouri, Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming joined Arizona.

Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) said he was gratified to have Summerhays agree with 21 states that the Biden administration’s impending cancelation of Title 42 would cause significant and irreparable harm to state and local jurisdictions.

“The assertion by the states of what would likely happen if Title 42 were lifted was not even contested by the Biden administration. The administration has, in fact, assembled a multiagency task force to manage what they anticipate to be an unprecedented surge of migrants crossing our borders illegally after May 23,” said Stein.

“We applaud the attorneys general of Missouri, Louisiana, and Arizona for originally filing this lawsuit and adding 18 states shortly thereafter. When the federal government does not fulfill its border security responsibilities, states are compelled to take legal action to protect their residents,” continued Stein. “They acted not only in the best interest of their residents, but the health and well-being of the American public overall.”

“From a purely public health perspective, Title 42 is still urgently needed,” argued Stein. “Not only is the national emergency declaration still in place, a new strain of COVID currently has the city of Shanghai, China under lockdown, while the flow of deadly fentanyl across the already lawless border has been acknowledged as a public health threat by the Centers for Disease Control.”



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